While Jessica Ennis was rightly taking the headlines for her fantastic 60metre hurdles victory in Birmingham on Saturday, Asafa Powell was quietly getting his first indoor season in eight years under way. Badly. Powell will hope his display at the Aviva Grand Prix is not an indication of things to come after he finished third behind [...]

Usain Bolt's hopes of retaining his world 100metres title received a huge boost when it was revealed during a chaotic press conference fellow Jamaican Asafa Powell had withdrawn from the event because of injury.

EXCLUSIVE: Asafa Powell has challenged
Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay to face off against him on the European circuit ahead of London 2012, and hopes that will open the door for him to steal Bolt’s Olympic titles.

ASAFA POWELL believes denying Dwain Chambers the chance to compete at the Beijing Olympics is the right decision. The Jamaican former 100metres world-record holder has always taken a hard line on drugs. And after Briton Chambers’ High Court appeal to overturn his lifetime Olympic ban was rejected Powell expressed relief that cheating does not work. […]

USAIN BOLT will not finalise his Olympic plans until the last possible moment. The Jamaican 100metres world- record holder has yet to decide, with coach Glen Mills, whether he will compete in the event at all in Beijing next month. The 21-year-old is focused on his core event, the 200m, but insists he is not […]

World 100 metres champion Tyson Gay has pulled out of his eagerly-anticipated head-to-head with Asafa Powell at the London Grand Prix on Friday. The American has lost his battle to regain full fitness following a hamstring injury. The clash between Gay and Jamaica’s former world record holder was set to one of the highlights of […]

Tyson Gay World 100 metres champion Tyson Gay has pulled out of his eagerly-anticipated head-to-head with Asafa Powell at the Aviva London Grand Prix on Friday night. The American has lost his battle to regain full fitness following a hamstring injury. The clash between Gay and Jamaica’s former world record holder was set to one […]

Asafa Powell secured a narrow win over new world record holder Usain Bolt as the Jamaican pair claimed a one-two in the 100metres at the IAAF Super Grand Prix meeting in Stockholm. Powell took full advantage of Bolt’s poor start to clinch a thrilling win in 9.88 seconds, one hundredth of a second clear of […]

1978:Born Islington, London, April 5. 1994:English Schools intermediates champion at 100m. 1995:Gold in 100m and sprint relay at European Juniors. 1997:Gold in 100m and sprint relay at European Juniors. Won 100m in 10.06, then a world junior record, the first by a British sprinter since Peter Radford in 1958. 1998:Took silver in Europeans and was […]

Dwain Chambers’ dream of winning an Olympic medal in Beijing next month looked more credible after his 100metres title triumph at the Aviva National Championships in Birmingham. It was only a fortnight ago that Chambers managed to achieve the Olympic ‘A’ qualifying standard, when clocking a time of 10.06seconds in Germany but today he finds […]

Asafa Powell Asafa Powell clocked 9.96 seconds in Port of Spain on Saturday as the former 100 metres world record holder returned to action after injury at the Trinidad national championships. The 25-year-old Jamaican sprinter pulled a chest muscle while weight training in April forcing him to delay the start to his track season. Powell […]